Word: bond
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...perhaps dreams of bridging it. With "J. G.," who has now turned 60, lives "J. D.," his son, James Dugald White, 38. "J. D." is a director in all three of his father's companies, but avoids the connotations of "engineer" and describes himself as "in the bond business...
...with Englishmen may be presumed to have made him an unpatriotic propagandist. In education he is even more dangerous, for the young people of the U. S. are an impressionable lot. He might be given a business job if concern had no foreign trade and never touched a foreign bond. If he should become a laborer, he might poison union minds with European socialism. As a scientist he would have to be watched, for there is no telling what dastardly machines he might sell to the enemies of the U. S. Even as a barber, his chatting to customers might...
...part of Mr. Mitchell's American Power & Light Co., it is worth several millions more. American Power & Light, one of the many potent public utilities which the omnipotent Electric Bond & Share Co. (Sidney Z. Mitchell is its chairman also) "supervises," recently acquired control of the Washington Water Power Co., which operates in Washington and Idaho, and for a longer time has owned the Pacific Power & Light Co., which operates in Oregon, Washington and Idaho. By adding to those companies Montana Power, American Power & Light has a well-knotted system tying the northwest communities snugly together...
...becoming purer, too, as Ohio grew and diversified with rolling mills at Youngstown, rubber at Akron, motor cars (Packard) at Warren, ore and paint at Cleveland, liquor at Cincinnati. More numerous and politically potent than all were Ohio's farmers. State pride in "home grown" products was the bond used by the politicians to tie the whole State together...
...Aldred interests are notably fostering a $10,000,000 bond issue for the Edison company of Milan and a $6,000,000 issue for the Adamello General Electric Co. operating throughout Lombardy. Not thus concentrated in Northern Italy are the operations of Blair & Co. who are financing a whole series of companies in Northern, Central and Southern Italy. Most notable, of course, is their issue for the Hydro-Electric Company of Piedmont, the S. I. P. (Societa Idroelettrica Peidmonte), famed because it is controlled by Il Duce's Finance Minister Count Giuseppe Volpi...